Annual salary of 75 million! Is it really renewed? ! After so many years, the No. 13 show is still awesome

The Suns have quickly signed Jordan Ultra and become the team's new coach.

They are the first team to confirm the new coach this summer. The speed of choosing a coach looks very ambitious.

As we all know, teams that want to rebuild in summer need to determine the coach early before adjusting the lineup.

From this point of view, the Sun will definitely have big moves this summer, definitely big moves.

According to Stein, Booker was involved in the Suns' selection of coaches, and he was very satisfied with Jordan Ultra.

Judging from the current news, we can draw the conclusion that the future of the Sun is still in Booker.

On July 7 this year, Booker was eligible to renew his contract with the Sun in advance, with a maximum contract of 149.8 million for two years, with an average annual salary of about 75 million.

According to American journalist Marc Stein, the league now generally believes that the Suns will give their star the maximum salary to renew their contract in advance.

Book's contract with Suns is still 3 years and 170 million, which means that if Booker and Suns renew their contract early, his future contract will reach about 320 million in five years and 5 years. In the 28-29 season, Booker's annual salary will reach more than 70 million yuan.

I took a look at the salary table. Among the current NBA contracts, Jaylen Brown should be the highest annual salary in the 2028-29 season, with 64.95 million

. So if the contract is renewed, Booker will become the most expensive player in the 2028-29 season (in the existing contract).

Before, we were still sighing that the NBA has entered a crazy era with an annual salary of 60 million. Unexpectedly, in just one summer, we entered a brand new era with an annual salary of 70 million, which is even more crazy.

So, many years later, is there another No. 13 pick to become the highest paid player in the league?

This No. 13 pick is not very good (Booker, who was selected by the Suns with the 13th pick in the first round in 2015).

Last season, Booker played 75 games, averaged 37.3 minutes per game, shot 33.2% from 3 points, and was able to score 25.6 points, 4.1 rebounds and 7.1 assists. How do you say this data?

Let's have a few intuitive comparisons...

In the 2011-12 season, the player with the highest annual salary in the NBA was Kobe, right, another No. 13 pick.

Kobe averaged 27.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game that year, which was still in an era when the data had not exploded.

The scoring leader that year was Durant, averaging 28 points per game, and Kobe ranked 2nd in 27.9 points per game.

The scoring leader this year was SGA, averaging 32.7 points per game.

So Booker averaged 25.6 points per game. In this era of data explosion, what level is it? Do you have any real feelings?

The key is that Booker will be 33 years old in 2029, and his condition will decline compared to his current age, right?

Curry, who has the highest annual salary this year, averaged 24.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 6 assists per game.

To put it bluntly, Curry's current annual salary is basically supported by his past achievements.

But Curry still has a lot of achievements... What does Booker have? In his 10 years of career, Booker's greatest honor is to be selected as the best team, right? And that's just once!

Book's personal career honors:

Best Rookie First Team

2021-22 Season

2023-24 All-Stars (2020, 21, 22, 24 years)

No more!

So you said, in the 2028-29 season, what can support Booker to get such a high annual salary?

It is really "there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the vanguard."

Suddenly I understood that Xiao Hua said before that he didn't know what the benefits of shortening the schedule, and he couldn't see any benefits of shortening the schedule.

Xiao Huahao made it clear that at this stage, the NBA will not consider shortening the regular season schedule.

That's not, what's the annual salary has expanded, and it also needs to reduce the workload of the players. How can this be seen inconsistent with the laws of the capitalist market?